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i now own a MULTITIMBRAL TONE GENERATOR from the famous ROLAND SC SERIES!!!

specifically the Roland SC-7. it's a heavily cut down version of the SC-55: (almost) no GS, no MT-32 patches, a lot less effect customisation, no sample editing. it's not even a "Sound Canvas", just "SC".

but you know what it is? very smol, and very cute. it's incredibly small and light for a 1992 piece of computer hardware. it has a little red LED that blinks at me when it receives MIDI messages. <3

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I finally found the DOS FPS game I'd played the demo of as a kid!!! I could remember it being in 3D, with configurable sound card options, a kind of sci-fi æsthetic, some outdoor sections with brown being the predominant colour, but also prominant use of electric blue. based on those details I knew it had to be from the mid-to-late 90's. sure enough, it's Domination (1998), apparently also known Rex Blade: The Battle Begins.

playing it now, I understand why I didn't keep playing: it sucks

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but one fascinating thing about Domination (1998) is that there's a "terminal" in the game, that you can walk up to. and it's an actual terminal! it looks like an Apple II, but it has cls, dir, help, system, ver, and some other stuff I forget, including: rex++, which is an honest-to-god fully-featured programming language??

let me remind you that this is a 3D shooty game. it's not even an action RPG!! what!!!!!

also DID THEY NAME THE MAIN CHARACTER (Rex Blade) AFTER REXX?????

screenshot of Domination (1998) running in DOSBox. a typical 2.5D scene from that era of DOS gaming: grainy pixelly textures, straight walls and floors, a gun rendered as a sprite screenshot of Domination (1998) running in DOSBox. a typical 2.5D scene from that era of DOS gaming: grainy pixelly textures, straight walls and floors, a gun rendered as a sprite
screenshot of Domination (1998) running in DOSBox. a listing of commands available in the terminal: CLS, DIR, EXIT, HELP, VER, SYSTEM, STARBLAZER, LOGS, LIB, REX++. the terminal resembles the Apple II DOS with the closing square bracket used as the prompt character. screenshot of Domination (1998) running in DOSBox. a listing of commands available in the terminal: CLS, DIR, EXIT, HELP, VER, SYSTEM, STARBLAZER, LOGS, LIB, REX++. the terminal resembles the Apple II DOS with the closing square bracket used as the prompt character.
screenshot of Domination (1998) running in DOSBox. the program REX++ is running inside the in-game terminal and an example program that plots random points on the screen and prints "I am the man!" is shown. screenshot of Domination (1998) running in DOSBox. the program REX++ is running inside the in-game terminal and an example program that plots random points on the screen and prints "I am the man!" is shown.
screenshot of Domination (1998) running in DOSBox. the output of running an example program that plots many random-colour dots on the screen and prints "I am the man!". screenshot of Domination (1998) running in DOSBox. the output of running an example program that plots many random-colour dots on the screen and prints "I am the man!".
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Gerty Steinblatt , @GertyBz@mastodon.art
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@hikari
Well done, seriously! <3

Ok I've been a professional musician for over 30 yrs & honestly I've heard so much worse from a whole buncha much more experienced folks.

And even though it's melodically & harmonically kind of awkward, there's a few sweet moves in there so you're totally headed in the right direction.

Also, rhythmically it's perfect & you've put the structure together beautifully. :)

You're obviously talented, please keep at it?

Ok unsolicited commentary over. :P <3

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bonus tidbit re: Domination (1998): if you notice me messing up the typing in the terminal a lot , i promise it's not because i'm bad at typing. i think they actually implemented the horrible keyboard input handling that i think i've heard the Apple II has(?). WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS DELIBERATELY

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